Transcom selected to provide customer assistance for the new famil.care service

Early in April, Transcom began managing customer service for famil.care, a new digital platform created to allow family caregivers to protect their loved ones remotely, look after their everyday needs, and provide assistance in an emergency.
Why was the service created? According to a Doxa survey commissioned by famil.care, about 19 million people in Italy receive daily assistance from their families: 13.4 million over 65s (a figure that is expected to reach 22 million in 2050) and 5.2 million children from 7 to 15 years old. About 15 million people (mainly women between the ages of 45 and 50) provide daily assistance for family members. These caregivers share their time between home and work, trying to get on with their own lives while taking care of their loved ones.

What is the new famil.care platform? It’s an app that offers a very simple way to make sure loved ones are safe and sound at all times, even at a remote location, and to receive alerts if ageing parents or children find themselves in difficulty. All interactions and checks are channeled through the family’s smartphones, which are connected to a simple, discrete device that the elderly person or child wears at all times, with an emergency button for them to press if they need help.

The famil.care service is already available in Italy, the UK, Germany and France. Transcom has been selected to provide the multilingual customer service to support famil.care users from the company’s Milan site. The service is managed over both voice and chat channels, with an integrated approach that uses a specially designed solution developed in its entirety by Transcom. While clearly technology-intensive, the service is harmonized by the human relationship established with specialist operators.
Every customer service project is special for the Transcom people who provide it, but when it comes to healthcare, as in this case, the human factor becomes even more important and the focus on quality is paramount across the entire team.